app

anglicism recorded since 19/04/2020

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

42,592
total occurrences
45.152
per million, total
30.139
per million, last year
26.207
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

app (31,468) apps (11,124)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 2,000 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks25% in quotes
In quotation marks (25%) Without quotation marks (75%)
Morphological category
Noun (86%) Adjective (6%) Other / undetermined (8%)
Grammatical genderout of 1,565 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (1%) Feminine (99%)

Heuristics computed over the contexts of use: the category is inferred from the kind of word preceding the borrowing, so percentages are indicative.

Frequency over time

Occurrences per million words, by week.

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By outlet

Where it is used most.

20minutos 12,014
La Vanguardia 6,970
El Confidencial 5,141
El Economista 4,745
ABC 3,091
El País 3,033
elDiario.es 2,785
El Mundo 1,800
Cinco Días 844
Marca 623

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Technology 17,208
Economy 8,781
Front page 5,918
Lifestyle 1,668
Motor 1,341
Health 1,320
Sports 1,009
Culture 680

Words it appears with

Most frequent words in the immediate context of “app”, according to the corpus examples.

citas (66) móvil (54) mediante (34) mensajería (32) propia (29) permite (25) usar (24) web (22) banco (21) abrir (18) instalar (17) descargar (16) meta (15) uso (15) gratuita (14) control (14) google (14) oficial (13)

Contexts of use

37,686 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).

⬇ CSV (5,000 max)
Form Context Outlet Section Date
apps espionaje de algunas apps de rastreo El Confidencial 20/04/2020
app la intención de la app de mensajería es llegar El Confidencial 20/04/2020
app integrado en la propia app de mensajería–, El Confidencial 20/04/2020
apps Si quieren crear apps efectivas no hay El Confidencial 19/04/2020
apps llevamos todas sus apps instaladas, usamos El Confidencial 19/04/2020
apps crean sus propias apps, como es El Confidencial 19/04/2020
app no a una app de rastreo de El Confidencial 19/04/2020
app españoles con una app tras el confinamiento El Confidencial 19/04/2020
app Alemania con una app de rastreo de El Confidencial 19/04/2020
app , tener una app lista a comienzos El Confidencial 19/04/2020
app si no tenemos, podemos bajarnos app de brújulas en nuestro móvil) ABC Lifestyle 05/04/2020

Contextually related borrowings

Borrowings that appear in the same articles as “app”: thematic or semantic neighbours in the corpus.

keynote 15 co-occ.
wearable 18 co-occ.
wallet 9 co-occ.
online 137 co-occ.
widget 10 co-occ.
premium 52 co-occ.
review 9 co-occ.
driver 6 co-occ.
software 58 co-occ.
prompt 8 co-occ.
chatbot 23 co-occ.
bluetooth 24 co-occ.
scroll 8 co-occ.
tablet 28 co-occ.
feed 8 co-occ.
sticker 11 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “app”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.